-=> On 14 May 95  11:35:05, Bob Seaborn said this to Kent Anderson
 > This was a strange case! I have diagnostic software that indicated the
 > modem was working from COM4. It would even dial out to a test number
 > provided with the software. Qmodem just refused to recognize it on
 > COM4, 02E8, IRQ3 , but when we changed it to COM2, 02F8, IRQ3,
 > everything
 > cleared up and it worked beautifully. Computer programs and modems are
 > strange people. 
 BS> I have known serial cards, even though their second port UART
 BS> and support chips are not physically installed, to still cause
 BS> interference with another hardware device trying to use the same
 BS> address.  What I've done in the past is assume that the non-existent
 BS> port is alive, and either re-addressed it, or used a different
 BS> address.  Reading what you said, sounds like you ran into a similar
 BS> situation.
Hi, Bob,
I forgot to mention that in this particular case, the user was running
Qmodem in a DOS box under Windows. I believe I could also have fixed
it with some changes in the system.ini file, as has been discussed
here recently,
Regards,
Kent,
 BS> .....Bob
 BS> -!- GE 1.11+ / IM 2.29c
 BS>  ! Origin: From the Keyboard of the Echo Moderator (1:140/12.1)
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